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Andrew Plato wrote:
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> Most of the engineers and technology managers I meet all say the same thing.
> They are fed up with technical writers who cannot handle technical issues. As
> one CTO I know says "You're f_cking **technical** writers - you should know
> technical sh_t!"
Most CTOs are so desperate that they'll settle for a writer who's
willing to learn.
Their attitude reminds me of my own when I was a university instructor.
I was passionately engaged in my subject, and spend considerable effort
trying to convey that passion. As a result, something died in me each
time I had to deal with a student whose only interest in my classes was
to fulfill a degree requirement with the highest mark possible.
Just like I was in my instructor days, CTOs are excited about what
they're doing. Tech-writers who want to learn just enough to write a
mediocre manual are to them what the time-serving students were to me.
Of course they're exasparated! By their attitudes, the time-serving
writers are dismissing what the CTOs view as important. Show me a person
who isn't exasparated at their interests being dismissed, and I'll show
you a person who's embalmed.
--
Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield -at- progeny -dot- com
"All the federales say
They could have had him any day,
They only let him slip away
Out of kindness, I suppose."
- Townes Van Zandt, "Poncho and Lefty"
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